Schoolroom Climate Change Indoctrination

While many American parents are angry about the Common Core educational standards and related student assessments in math and English, less attention is being paid to the federally driven green Common Core that is now being rolled out across the country. Under the guise of the first new K-12 science curriculum to be introduced in 15 years, the real goal seems to be to expose students to politically correct climate-change orthodoxy during their formative learning years.

The Next Generation of Science Standards were released in April 2013. Thirteen states and the District of Columbia have adopted them, including my state of New Jersey, which signed on in July 2014 and plans to phase in the new curriculum beginning with the 2016-2017 school year. The standards were designed to provide students with an internationally benchmarked science education.

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One of the first states to adopt the Common Core is now abandoning that one-size-fits-all national program in favor of returning the development of high academic standards to the state and local level.

While claiming to be pro-science, the left peddles a fictional statistic—“Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree [that] climate change is real, man-made, and dangerous”—that can’t withstand empirical analysis.